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Elizabeth Kolbert at The New Yorker writes about the implications that technology monopolies have for culture by asking "Who owns the Internet?". Three decades ago, few used the Internet for much of anything and the web wasn't even around. Today, nearly everybody uses the web, and to a lesser extent, other parts of the Internet for just about everything. However, despite massive growth, the Web has narrowed very much: "Google now controls nearly ninety per cent of search advertising, Facebook almost eighty per cent of mobile social traffic, and Amazon about seventy-five per cent of e-book sales."
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What Big Tech's Monopoly Powers Mean for Our Culture
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(Score: 2) by captain normal on Thursday August 24 2017, @03:56AM (2 children)
Whisky Tango Foxtrot!! What the hell does this have to with "Who owns the internet"? Does it belong to the Big Telcos? Or does it belong to the Big Service Providers? Does it belong to the Big Government? Does it belong to the Big Retailers?
Maybe, just maybe, it actually belongs to the people who use it.
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts"- --Daniel Patrick Moynihan--
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 24 2017, @09:29AM
If we pay to use it, and if we can be baned from it, then it doesn't belong to us.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 24 2017, @01:01PM
The internet belongs to whoever owns the cables and routers.